Duality groups, automorphic forms, and higher derivative corrections

Higher Derivative Corrections, Dimensional Reduction and Ehlers Duality

Motivated by applications to black hole physics and duality, we study the effect of higher derivative corrections on the dimensional reduction of four-dimensional Einstein, Einstein-Liouville and Einstein-Maxwell gravity to one direction, as appropriate for stationary, spherically symmetric solutions. We construct a field redefinition scheme such that the one-dimensional Lagrangian is corrected...

Discontinuous Groups and Automorphic Forms

Automorphic Forms and Metaplectic Groups

In 1952, Gelfand and Fomin noticed that classical modular forms were related to representations of SL2(R). As a result of this realization, Gelfand later defined GLr automorphic forms via representation theory. A metaplectic form is just an automorphic form defined on a cover of GLr, called a metaplectic group. In this talk, we will carefully construct the metaplectic covers of GL2(F) where F i...

Automorphic forms of higher order

In this paper a theory of Hecke operators for higher order modular forms is established. The definition of higher order forms is extended beyond the realm of parabolic invariants. A canonical inner product is introduced. The role of representation theoretic methods is clarified and, motivated by higher order forms, new convolution products of L-functions are introduced.

On Higher Congruences between Automorphic Forms

We prove a commutative algebra result which has consequences for congruences between automorphic forms modulo prime powers. If C denotes the congruence module for a fixed automorphic Hecke eigenform π0 we prove an exact relation between the p-adic valuation of the order of C and the sum of the exponents of p-power congruences between the Hecke eigenvalues of π0 and other automorphic forms. We a...